Famous quotes containing the words aquarian and/or nation:
““This is what my learning
Teaches,” the Aquarian said,
“To absorb life through the pores
For the life around you is dead.””
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“Under the dominion of an idea, which possesses the minds of multitudes, as civil freedom, or the religious sentiment, the power of persons are no longer subjects of calculation. A nation of men unanimously bent on freedom, or conquest, can easily confound the arithmetic of statists, and achieve extravagant actions, out of all proportion to their means; as, the Greeks, the Saracens, the Swiss, the Americans, and the French have done.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)